Serving the Regional District of Nanaimo
Septic Installation, Repair & Pumping in Coombs
Parksville Septic Systems works Coombs and Errington — hobby farms and big acreages, all of it on wells and septic rather than town services. The soil changes from one property to the next out here, so we settle the design lot by lot. We install, repair and pump Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 systems in both communities. Where the ground takes water quickly, a bigger lot usually gives us room for a plain gravity drain field.
Septic work around Coombs runs from a few hundred dollars for a pump-out up to $15,000–$45,000+ for a new system, depending on the type and what the soil will take. We price your property once we've walked it.
Acreage, wells, and older gravity systems
Plenty of Coombs and Errington acreages still run the original gravity system, and it has quietly done its job for decades. On a big lot the tank lids are often buried and hard to find, so we fit risers — that makes routine tank pumping and every service call after it far easier. When the field finally slows down or backs up, we test it on site and tell you whether it's a straightforward septic repair or time for a new field.
Soil variability drives the design
The ground around Coombs can go from free-draining gravel to tight, wet clay inside a few hundred feet, so we dig a perc test before any septic installation and see for ourselves how fast it takes water. Where it drains freely, a Type 1 suits a large lot — just a tank and a drain field. Tighter or wetter ground wants a Type 2 with treatment gear, which we design and file as a ROWP.
Filing and neighbouring areas
Every new or altered system we build gets filed with Island Health under the Sewerage System Regulation, and our septic filing guide walks through how that goes. We're out in Coombs as often as we're in neighbouring Parksville and Qualicum Beach.
Send us the acreage and whatever system is on it now, and a free quote comes back for Coombs or Errington.
Ready for a septic quote in Coombs?
Tell us about the property and the job, and we’ll come out and look. We work right across the Regional District of Nanaimo, and the visit costs you nothing.